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Data Centre Markets in Africa (Jan. 2011)

Data Centre Markets in Africa - Review of the commercial facilities, challenges and opportunities in 2011

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Summary: The arrival of several international cables on both sides of the continent has set the stage for growth in Africa's data centre market. In a global information economy, data centres are where information is hosted locally. As such, data centres are a key ingredient of the nascent telecoms and IT infrastructure in Africa. More resilience, better access to content, the recent move to cloud computing and the need to trim costs through outsourcing drive demand for data centres solutions. Regulatory changes that will require important national digital data to be stored in-country are another growth driver.The research covers the whole continent but has 11 detailed country profiles for the main data centre markets. It lists the commercial data centres by country, analyses the current environment, key trends, business issues, opportunities and future developments in the market. Altogether, Balancing Act identified 115 commercial data centre facilities including projects about to be completed. The report also answers questions like: "where to build new data centres in Africa?", "what are the investment opportunities?", "what are the main issues to building new data centres on the continent?", "why Africa needs local data centres?", "how local data centres will impact on African economies?", "what is the return on investment of a typical data centre?", "why should African governments get involved in securing data centre facilities?", "who are the main providers of data centres?", and more. It is the product of seven months work by three researchers, including international data centre expert Pablo Diantina.

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Africa’s data centres are a key ingredient of the nascent telecoms and IT infrastructure in Africa. Their facilities enable safe storage, back up and fast transmission of vast amount of data locally.

In 2011, the outlook for the growing data centre market in Africa is very promising, with various degrees of roll-out and the steady build-up of services associated with them. In some parts of Africa such as in South African, the data centre market is booming in anticipation of the new bandwidth that will be supplied by the new WACS cable later this year, but several regions remain untapped although local corporate demand is growing.

South Africa has the largest number of shared data centres in Africa. With 15 facilities, S.A. leads the way to improved digital content access, resilience and IT solutions. The most famous SA data centres are Teraco, BCX and Internet Solutions.

These are the key findings of a unique and comprehensive market report undertaken by Balancing Act on the African data centre market which has been published on 19 January 2011. Building on the extensive market research and consulting work undertaken by Balancing Act in the ICT sector carried out over the past 11 years, this new report - which required three researchers over 7 months of research - analyses the current environment, key trends, business issues, opportunities and future developments in the market.

It assesses the "shared" data centre landscape by country and by facility type. Altogether, the reports highlights 115 commercial data centre facilities in 24 African countries including projects about to be completed.The report also answers the question "where to build new data centres in Africa?" by reviewing ideal data centre locations, their economic and political status, available power grid and access to bandwidth from an investors' perspective.This includes analysis for each selected country with relevant market segmentation, locations' strengths and weaknesses, key builds and major new planned builds in 2011.A chapter dedicated to pricing and another one focused on market drivers bring extra amunitions to potential investors.The research also provides its reader with an African Data Centre contact directory, a directory of companies engaged in selling services into the African data centre sector, maps, 70 tables packed with detailed market indicators.

It closes with recommendations for both Data Centre builders, government agencies and service providers, as well as with trends' forecasts in the years to come.

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Why should you read this report?

The report will save research time and money and is essential reading for anyone involved, or planning to engage in the African data centre sector. Anyone trying to identify where the exisiting and upcoming data centres are in Africa will find the answer in this piece of research. The report is part of standard market intelligence for data centre professionals and for telcos in the region.

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